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Artist
Mother Sun
12+ albums
indierockPsychedelic Rockpsychedelicindie rock
about
Mother Sun is Jonathan Cordle and Christopher Haynes, along with various friends at various times. The duo met in Pittsburgh and very quickly started making music together, first as music school students receiving formal training, then around the local clubs and gallery circuit. In bands of varying sizes for a few years, Cordle and Haynes produced artsy post-rock, dense art-pop, and neo-classical indie-psychedelia, working with a few other musicians from the Pittsburgh scene. Losing about a member a year on average, but continually evolving a complex sound, eventually Cordle and Haynes were working with a violist and no one else. Suddenly, in the summer of 2009, everything changed. Mother Sun released an intricate three song EP, lush with orchestration, to local critical acclaim. Then Cordle split from his long time fiancé and musical partner, while Haynes married his long-term girlfriend. Cordle hunkered down in Pittsburgh, working through a crisis of faith and emerging a stronger, more confident songwriter; Haynes relocated to Boulder Colorado and opened his mind to the epic possibilities of the mountains, embracing new compositional techniques. And Mother Sun was reborn, emerging from this polarization as a collective partnership. The early inklings of melancholia-cum-bliss became a signature aspect of the music Cordle and Haynes created together, but in new, more subtle contexts. Stripped of all previous instrumentation, Mother Sun became an elision of digital multi-text
